Cushion for billiard or pool tables.



No. 7||,482. Patented Oct. 2!, i902.

' D. W. DELANEY.

CUSHION FOR BILLIABDDB POOL TABLE S. (Application filed Sept. 11, 1901.) (No Model.)

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

DANIELIWQ DEL'ANEY, 'OF NEW YORK, Y.

CUSHIONFOR BlLLlARD OR-POOL TABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.71 1,482, dated October 21, 1902.

Application filed September 11, 1901. Serial No. 74,988. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- v

Be it known that I, DANIEL W. DELANEY,

a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and

a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented Certain new and useful Improvements in Cushions for Billiard or PoolTables, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to cushions for'billiard and pool tables; and the object of my invention is to provide stiffening means for the' angle which receives the impact of the ball.

I will describe a cushion embodying myinveution and then point out the novel features thereof in the claims.

7 In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional View of a rail of a billiard-table having a cushion embodying my invention Fig. 4 is a view similar to Figs. 2 and 3, but

showing a further modification.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

A represents a rail of a billiard or pool table; B, the table; 0, the Wooden backing for the cushion; D, the cushion, and d the cover for the cushion. j v

The cushion D is of rubber and, as here shown, is triangular in shape in cross-section. Extending longitudinally of the cushion beneath the angle (1, which receives the impact 01' the ball, is an opening in which is placed a stiffening device E, here shown as consisting of a straight wire 6 and a coiled wire 6', surrounding the straight wire a. Also embedded in the cushion and adjacent the face d thereof is a strip of canvas 6 one edge of which is turned'to inclose the stiffening device E. The edge of the canvas turned about the coil tends to prevent the coil e from wearing through the rubber and alsoto present a smoother surface to that portion of the -cushion which receives the impact of the ball,

and thus get a truer reflection of the ball from the cushion. The canvas strip, also extending along the face (1 10f the cushion, adds a certain amount of elasticity to the cushion and helps to produce a better eflfe'ct.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have shown the straight wire 6 as being provided with a covering 6 which covering will prevent any rattling of the straight wire within the coil. In Fig. 3 I employ the canvas e". In Fig. 4 I employ an independent covering of canvas e for the stifiening device E and an independent strip of canvas 6 for the face 61 of the cushion.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. The combination in acushion for a billiard or pool table, of a rubber part having an opening extending longitudinally thereof, a stiffening device located in said opening and consisting of a straight wire and a coil 65 surrounding it, and a canvas strip also embedded'in saidrubber part adjacent a face thereof and having an edge turned over the "stiffening device.

opening extending longitudinallythereof, a

stiffening deviceloca'ted insaid opening and consisting of a straight wire, acovering for said straight wire, and a coil, surrounding said cover and the straight wire, and a can- Vas strip also embedded in said rubber part adjacent the face thereof andhaving anedge turned over the stiffening device- In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. V

- DANIEL W. DELANEY.

Witnesses:

GEO. E. (Rosa, 7 ALFRED H. EvANs. 

